{"id":1301,"date":"2020-09-11T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2020-09-11T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:10:06","slug":"sep-11-anuj-kumar-to-present-digitization-and-divergence-online-school-ratings-and-segregation-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/sep-11-anuj-kumar-to-present-digitization-and-divergence-online-school-ratings-and-segregation-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Sep 11 &#8211; Anuj Kumar to present &#8220;Digitization and Divergence: Online School Ratings and Segregation in America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Digitization and Divergence: Online School Ratings and Segregation in America<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">by<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/site.warrington.ufl.edu\/kumar\/files\/2019\/05\/anuj-kumar-3x4.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.warrington.ufl.edu\/kumar\/\">Anuj Kumar<\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;text-align: center\" align=\"center\">Matherly Professor of Information Systems<br \/>\nAssociate Professor<br \/>\nWarrington College of Business<br \/>\nUniversity of Florida<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Friday, Sep 11<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>9 \u2013 10 am | Zoom<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Abstact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We analyze whether widespread online access to school performance information affected economic and social segregation in America. We leverage the staged rollout of GreatSchools.org school ratings from 2006\u20132015 to answer this question. Across a range of outcomes and specifications, we find that the mass availability of school ratings has accelerated divergence in housing values, income distributions, and education levels as well as the racial and ethnic composition across communities. Affluent and more educated families were better positioned to leverage this new information to capture educational opportunities in communities with the best schools. An unintended consequence of better information was less, rather than more, equity in access to education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digitization and Divergence: Online School Ratings and Segregation in America by Anuj Kumar Matherly Professor of Information Systems Associate Professor Warrington College of Business University of Florida Friday, Sep 11 9 \u2013 10 am | Zoom Abstact: We analyze whether widespread online access to school performance information affected economic and social segregation in America. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[555688,783316,783315,783317,783314,455949],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-digitization","8":"tag-online-school-ratings","9":"tag-quasi-natural-experiment","10":"tag-school-performance","11":"tag-segregation","12":"tag-society","13":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}